Sowing the Wind

The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East

The seeds of conflict in the Middle East were sown in the first 60 years of the 20th century. It was then that the Western powers - Britain, France and the United States - discovered the imperatives for interventions that have plunged the region into crisis ever since. It was also then that most of the region's modern-day states were created and their regimes forged - their management by the West earning abiding resentment. with lucid analysis and anecdotes.